Coat front pad



COAT FRONT PAD Filed April 17, 1955 2 She etS-Sheet 1 1N VEN TOR. q flamed germ/z BY W ATTORNEY BE-RSIN COAT FRONT PAD Filed April 17, 1935 2 Sheets-Sheet 2 INVENTOR. flaw/e! Bars! ATTORNEY Patented June 30, 1936 UNITED STATES PATENT OFFICE 9 Claims.

This invention relates to the padding used for stiffening and giving form to clothing. Such padding is used to give resiliency to a garment, it helps the garment to maintain its shape. While useful for clothing in general, my invention relates especially to the pads used in the front and sides of mens coats. The padding usually consists of a piece of canvas slit and gathered tocause it to have predetermined bulges. In addition the canvas has a layer of more resilient material such as horse-hair cloth sewed upon it to help it maintain its bulge or bulges. It has been found, however, that in the course of time, the.

| Other objects and advantages will become ap parent upon a further study of the description and drawings, in which:

I Fig. 1 is a developed elevation of a portion of the pad along the sleeve side looking at the pad from the front.

Fig. 2 is an'elevation of the pad in its finished form looking at it from the front.

Fig. 3 is a cross section of the pad taken along the line 33 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 4 is a longitudinal section of the pad taken along the line 44 of Fig. 2.

Fig. 5 is a developed elevation of the horsehair layer looking at it from the front, and

Fig. 6 is a rear view of the upper portion of the pad. n

The pad shown is one suitable for use in the front and side of mens coats. Of course it will be understood my construction will apply as well to pads to be used in other parts of clothing where bulges and curls or curves are to be maintained.

The canvas layer 1 has the horse-hair layer 8 stitched to its rear at the upper portion. Behind the horse-hair layer, a layer of felt 9 is stitched which extends over a substantial portion of the canvas layer 1.

In order to form the required bulge Ill, layer 1 is first slit and provided with an elongated cutout extending inward from the edge of the pad at sleeve notch 2 as seen in Fig. 1. At a substantial distance below the sleeve notch l2, a slit I3 is provided which extends inward from the edge of the pad at the sleeve side of the pad. From about the midpoint of slit l3, an elongated cut-out I4 is located extending in a generally upward direction. A slit l1 extends downward from the upper edge between collar notch i8 and 5 sleeve notch 12.

Horse-hair layer 8 is also provided with a cutout I", which when said layer is superimposed upon canvas layer 1 and stitched thereto, comes substantially opposite cut-out Another cut- 10 out I6 is also provided in horse-hair layer 8.

To give the pad its required shape, the edges of slit ll are separated and a gore I9 is inserted and stitched therebetween. At cut-out II, the edges are overlapped, and the edges of cut-out 15 I5 in horse-hair layer 8 are overlapped and substantially superimposed ,upon the overlapped edges of cut-out Said overlapped edges are then stitched to maintain them in position. The edges of cut-out M are overlapped as shown in 20 Fig. 2 and stitched to maintain them in position.

The stitching and gathering of the material 1 at the cut-outs and slits causes the pad to have a bulge land a curl 20 along its edge on the 25 sleeve side.

With the pad thus bulged and curled, a strip of flexible inextensible material or tape 2| is sewed throughout its length, preferably upon the concave side of the bulge or rear of the pad. 30 The tape 2| is sewedin the form of a loop or ring and is located at the summit of the bulge. The area enclosed by the ring is less than the extent of the bulge. It is to benoted that the leg of the loop toward the sleeve side of the pad, 35 extends across cut-outs II and I4 at intermediate points. The ring or loop formed by tape 2| is elongated with its long axis'extending in an up and down direction. I

From the lower end of the ring or loop formed 40 by tape 2|, one of the legs of the loop has an extension 22, which extends substantially to the edge of the pad at the sleeve side in the region of curl 20. Extension 22 tends to hold up the edge of the pad toward sleeve notch I2 thereby 45 maintaining curl 20. Because tape 2| is substantially inextensible, and is sewed to the pad at the bulge after said bulge has already been formed, it will prevent spreading of the area encompassed by it and thereby stay or maintain 5 the bulge.

The expression flexible resilient piece of textile material as used in the claims is intended to be broad enough to convey the idea that the term piece applies to a single layer, as layer 1, 55

2. A stiifening pad for the front of coats comprising a flexible resilient piece of textile material provided at its upper end on one. side with a. sleeve notch, said piece having a cut-out extending inward from the sleeve notch, and having another cut-out near the edge of the pad on the sleeve side extending upwardly from a point at a substantial distance below the sleeve notch, said material being gathered at the cut-outs with the opposing edges stitched; together in overlapping relation to form a bulge in said material, and a strip of substantially inextensible textile material sewed to said piece in the form of an elongated ring with the long axis of the ring extending. in an up. and down direction, the side of said ringtoward the sleeve. side of said. piece extending across said former cut-out at an intermediate point and across the latter cut-out also at an intermediate point.

3. A stiffen-ing pad for clothing, comprising a flexible resilient piece of textile material gathered and stitched to form abulge in said piece, and a narrow strip of flexible substantially inextensible material substantially in the form of a ring sewed tosaid piece along substantially the entire length of the strip Within the region of the bulge to stay the bulge, said ring enclosing less area than the extent of the bulge.

4. A stiffening pad for the front of coats com prising a flexible resilient piece of textile material provided at its upper end on one side with 2;.

-.- sleeve notch, said piece having an elongated cutout extending inward from the sleeve notch, and having another elongated cut-out extending upwardly toa point near said former cut-out from a point at a substantial distance below the sleeve notch, said latter cut-out being near the edge of the pad on the sleeve side, said material being gathered at the cut-outs with the opposing edges stitched together in overlapping relation to form a bulge in said material, and a. strip of substantially inextensible textile material sewed to said piece in the form of a ring, said ring extending across both cut-outs.

5. A stiffening pad for the front of coats comprising a flexible resilient piece of textile material provided at its upper end on one side with a sleeve notch, said material being slit, gathered and stitched near the sleeve notch and below to form a bulge at the sleeve side of the pad and a strip of substantially inextensible flexible material sewed in the form substantially of a ring to said piece at the region of the bulge, to maintain the bulge;

6. A stiifening pad for the front of coats comprising a flexible resilient piece of textile material provided at its upper end on one side with a sleeve notch, said material being slit, gathered and stitched near the sleeve notch and below to form a bulge. at the'sleeve side of the pad and a strip of substantially inextensible textile material sewed to said piece in the form of a loop enclosing a substantial area of said bulge, one leg of the loop being longer than the other and extending from substantially the bottom of the loop outward to a point near the edge of the pad on the sleeve side for holding up said edge at saidpoint toward the sleeve notch.

A stifiiening pad for the front ofcoats comprising a flexible resilient piece of textile material provided at its upper. end on one side with a sleeve notch, said material being slit, gathered and stitched. near the. sleeve notch and below to form a butge, and a. tape-like. strip of substantially inextensible material in the formsubstantiall-y of a ring sewed at. many places along its lengthto said-piece at the region of the bulge to maintain the bulge, said; ring enclosing less.

area than the extent of the bulge.

8. A stiffening padfor clothing, comprising a flexible resilient piece of textile material gatherediand fastened to form a bulge in. said piece,

and a stripv of flexible substantially inextensible.

material in the form of a ring fastenedv to said piece. along substantially the. entire length of the strip. within the region of the bulge and enclosing less area than, the. extent of the bulge, to maintain the bulge.

9. A stiffening pad for the front of coats, comprising aflexible resilient piece of textile material provided at its upper end on. one side with a sleeve notch, said material being gathered and stitchednearthe sleeve notch and below to form a bulge in the interior of the pad near said notch and a curl at the edge of the pad below said notch, and a strip. of substantially inextensible flexible material. sewed to said piece in the form of a loop enclosing a substantial area of said bulge, forrmaintaining said bulge, one leg of the loop being longer than theother and extending from substantially the. bottom. of the loop outward to a point near the edge of the pad substantially at the. lower end of the curl for maintaining said curl.

DANIEL BERSIN. 

